I like simple. Nomenclature is a challenge, it was ever so. On either side of an event, I see two bookends. One is "Proximal" cause, ie engine spool down, the other is "procuring cause", cold soaked fuel in China.
In between are fuel supply architecture, spar valve actions, low and high pressure pumps, SOPs, and a flawed design re: Heat exchanger and spill circuitry.
I have never liked the cheese hole theory, it makes me hungry and I get distracted.
I am one hundred per cent on board wih
PJ2. When one says "It was not the pitots", one expects a little slack. Given the 17 year history of A330 and a "gazillion miles", and the unfortunate smoking gun of poor crisis management in dependability, by now, don't we know what we mean ?
